Re: not quite a hate: is there an archive?

2008-12-30 Thread Michael G Schwern
Ricardo SIGNES wrote: * Earle Martin hates-softw...@downlode.org [2008-12-23T14:15:39] 2008/12/23 Ricardo SIGNES hates...@rjbs.manxome.org Is there a place I can get a big ol' mailbox of past hates-software? Or a tarballed maildir? Or a complete newsfeed? Whatever... Not to my knowledge,

Re: not quite a hate: is there an archive?

2008-12-30 Thread Yoz Grahame
Try: http://we.hates-software.com/index_1.html alternatively, add your own query terms to: http://www.google.com/search?hl=enclient=firefox-arls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficialq=site%3Ahates-software.combtnG=Search On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 6:10 AM, Ricardo SIGNES hates...@rjbs.manxome.org wrote:

Re: Guest hate: Microsoft's ribbon interface

2008-12-30 Thread Peter da Silva
Oh, yes, the Ribbon is a piece of unparalleled fuckwittedness.

Re: Guest hate: Microsoft's ribbon interface

2008-12-30 Thread Philip Newton
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 00:39, Peter da Silva pe...@taronga.com wrote: Oh, yes, the Ribbon is a piece of unparalleled fuckwittedness. Not to mention a great advertising point for other office programs such as OOo. Works very similar, but has the same great menus you've been used to for a dozen

RPM

2008-12-30 Thread Peter da Silva
OK, I never really had to deal with RPM internals before, but it behaved like an oddball packaging format with some kind of binary header, so I assumed that's what it was... but no. It appears that the only supported way to build an RPM is by having an actual installer, RUNNING it, and

Re: RPM

2008-12-30 Thread demerphq
2008/12/30 Peter da Silva pe...@taronga.com: OK, I never really had to deal with RPM internals before, but it behaved like an oddball packaging format with some kind of binary header, so I assumed that's what it was... but no. It appears that the only supported way to build an RPM is by having

Re: RPM

2008-12-30 Thread Joshua Juran
On Dec 30, 2008, at 10:13 AM, demerphq wrote: You see RPM thinks that any given file can only have one source. And that if you want to say, upgrade a file in a package, you have to remove the old package first. Now this is just hateful behaviour, totally divorced from day to day reality.

Re: RPM

2008-12-30 Thread Rafael Garcia-Suarez
2008/12/30 Peter da Silva pe...@taronga.com: And you can't even make it do the work in a custom directory without changing a magic dotfile in your home directory. So if you want to make an automated RPM build process that's running on a shared build server, you can't do it when anyone else is

alias rm rm -i

2008-12-30 Thread Peter da Silva
No further comment is needed. Bastards.